By Antoaneta Bezlova, IPS, 3 January 2000. Smoggy,
congested Beijing is launching a massive clean-up campaign
designed to turn itself from a choking, industrial wasteland
into an international metropolis of consumption and
culture.

China News Digest, 29 August 2001. Beijing is
stepping up a reforestation project to stop the desert from
advancing into the city. The project is part of a 10-year
program to restore forests in suburban Beijing and other
northern Chinese metropolitan areass.

Xinhua, 7 February 2002. Buses in the Chinese capital
Beijing are to use imported liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) as
fuel. The move aims at reducing atmospheric pollution in
Beijing and helping the capital to prepare for hosting the
Olympic Games in 2008.